Dr. Gabriel J. Jackowitz, actively engaged in the practice of medicine in New Haven as a representative of the homeopathic school, was born February 10, 1883, and in the acquirement of his education attended the high school of Providence, Rhode Island, and later entered Brown University of that city, in which institution he won the Bachelor of Philosophy degree. He determined upon the practice of medicine as a life work and with that end in view became a student in the School of Medicine of the Boston University, from which he was graduated with the class of 1907. His initial professional training was received as house physician and surgeon in Grace Hospital in 1907 and 1908, and he was assistant surgeon of Grace Hospital through the succeeding two years and has been attending surgeon since 1910. He has also built up an extensive private practice of an important character and his ability is widely recognized by the profession as well as by the general public.

  Dr. Jackowitz is identified with several professional organizations. He is a member of the New Haven Medical Society, the New Haven County Medical Society, the Connecticut State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He also belongs to the Connecticut Homeopathic Medical Society and the American Institute of Homeopathy and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. In his practice he has always specialized in surgery and he has thorough knowledge of anatomy and the component parts of the human body, recognizing as well the onslaughts made upon it by disease, while his coolness of nerve, his steadiness of hand and his thorough understanding of all scientific principles underlying his work have gained him great skill in his chosen line.

  Dr. Jackowitz belongs to the chamber of commerce and to the civic federation of New Haven and is interested in all that has to do with the welfare and progress of his adopted city. He is prominently known in Masonic circles, having attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish rite in Lafayette Consistory, and with all other local bodies of Masonry he is identified, while in his life he exemplifies the beneficent spirit which underlies the craft.